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Week 38! The Last Week!

It's our last week of 1st grade and what a beautiful week it is going to be:

Here is what you can expect:

Math:

This week we will be wrapping up our unit on money, students will have a chance to purchase real items from a class store using real money (supplied by me). We will also use our time this week to complete our end of year cumulative tests. This will allow us to double check your student's progress and ensure that they end the year where they need be! 

Science:

This week we wrap up our Astronomy unit by making a solar system crayon resist picture. Students will review the sizes, features, and colors of the planets, then draw them.

Literature: In Literature, we will finish up My Father’s Dragon packets, take a short assessment, and create dragon puppets!

Spalding: This week we will not have a Spelling Test, but we will do individual OPRs (oral phonogram reviews) on Monday and Tuesday and take a graded WPR (written phonogram review) on Wednesday. We will also learn some special words picked by the class! 

 Idiom: We will review all idioms learned this year and finish up our Phrases and Sayings packet!

Poem: “My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson – We will recite this week!

History: For our last week in History, we will discuss the importance of the White House and voting! We will conclude with our own voting activity upon reading “Duck for President” by Doreen Cronin.

Summer Academy

Join us for Summer Academy this June!  There are many opportunities for your scholars to create, discover, and discuss with friends at our outstanding camps!  Farm to Table (June 5-9) and Inventions and Discoveries (June 12-16) will be taught by Mrs. Smith. Create and color on an Art-venture (June 19-23) and join us for a tale as we read and make Heroes and Villains (June 26-29) with Mr. Naaktgeboren. We have several afternoon vendor and sports camps as well. Spots are filling up fast so register soon!

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Week 37!

Good Afternoon!

Here is what you can expect for the week ahead:

Math:

This week we will continue to work on adding and subtracting two digit numbers. We will continue to practicing counting up and counting back as well as work on our place value skills. Lastly, we will learn a lot about money this week as we identify and learn how to use both coins and bills. 

Science:

In science, we will start to wrap up our Astronomy Unit this week. We will review the sun, moon, constellations, and planets, then take a quiz on Wednesday. Then we will learn about the work that astronauts are doing today and how they live in space.

Literature: This week, we will be finishing My Father’s Dragon! Students will discuss the virtue of courage, fill out a story map, and sequence events from the book.

Spalding: There are 29 words this week – Test on Friday!

Monday: dozen, there, their, they’re, tax, number, October, reason, fifth, baking, bake

Tuesday: bowl, cheap, cheerful, chicken, driving, drive, echoes, echo, fairy, knock

Wednesday: leather, linen, mixture, nation, pause, peace, permission, rough

Phonograms to practice: ch, ei, ie, n, ng, o, oe, k, si, x

Idiom: Hit the nail on the head

Poem: “My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson – Recite next week!

History: In History, we will wrap up our Westward Expansion unit and test on Wednesday. We will talk about American symbols for our last few classes and do some fun crafts for each. This week we will learn about the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell, and Bald Eagle.

Week 36!

Good Afternoon,

Here is a snapshot of what to expect this week:

Science:

We will continue to study the planets this week. We will learn about the three known planets that are furthest from the sun:  Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. We will study the rings of Saturn, the weather on Uranus, and the orbit of Neptune.

Literature: In Literature, we will be reading chapters 6-8, and Elmer will encounter a rhinoceros, lion, and gorilla! Students will do a freeze frame, identify key elements, and identify cause and effect throughout the story.

Spalding: 30 words this week - Test on Friday!

Monday: God, god, teacher, November, subject, April, history, study, himself, matter

Tuesday: use, thought, person, nor, or, January, mean, vote, court, copy

Wednesday: act, been, be, yesterday, among, question, quest, doctor, size, December

Phonograms to practice: c, d, g, h, or, ou, ough, qu, ti, u

Writing: This week’s copy work and narration exercises come from the poem “Rain” and the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Idiom: Hit the nail on the head

Poem: “My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson

History: In History, we will be learning more about Lewis and Clark’s journey. Students will discuss the early days and the tasks that they were assigned, the importance of Sacagawea, and identify some important plants and animals that Lewis and Clark discovered. On Friday, they will fill out a review to go home and be studied. There will be a test the following Wednesday (May 17^th).

Math:

Math: This week we will spend some time reviewing our subtraction skills. We will be subtracting one digit numbers from two digit numbers as well as two digit numbers from each other. We will complete our subtraction problems using two different methods. First, we will use our counting back method and secondly, we will identify the tens and ones in each number and practice taking away ones and tens from each other (for example, in the problem "56-23" we will subtract 3 ones from 6 ones and 2 tens from 5 tens).